NEW YORK JAMES S. JAFFE RARE BOOKS INTERNATIONAL 790 Madison Avenue, Suite 605 ANTIQUARIAN New York, New York 10065 BOOK FAIR Tel. 212-988-8042 Mobile: 610-637-3531 Email: [email protected] PARK AVENUE Website: www.jamesjaffe.com ARMORY Member Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America / APRIL 7-10, 2011 International League of Antiquarian Booksellers 1. [AFRICAN – AMERICAN] LOGAN, Rayford, editor. What The Negro Wants. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, 1944. First edition. Contributors include Mary McLeod Bethune; Sterling A. Brown; W.E. Burghardt Du Bois; Gordon B. Hancock; Leslie Pinckney Hill; Langston Hughes; Rayford W. Logan; Frederick D. Patterson; A. Philip Randolph; George S. Schuyler; Willard S. Townsend; Charles H. Wesley; Doxey A. Wilkerson; Roy Wilkins. Very fine copy in dust jacket of this seminal anthology; rare in this con- dition. $750.00 2. [ANTHOLOGY]. JOYCE, James. Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. (Edited by Robert McAl- mon). 8vo, original printed wrappers. (Paris: Contact Editions Three Mountains Press, 1925). First edition, pub- lished jointly by McAlmon‟s Contact Editions & William Bird‟s Three Mountains Press. One of 300 copies printed in Dijon by Darantiere, who printed Joyce‟s Ulysses. Slocum & Cahoon B7. With contributions by Djuna Barnes, Bryher, Mary Butts, Norman Douglas, Havelock Ellis, Ford Madox Ford, Wallace Gould, Ernest Hemingway, Mars- den Hartley, H. D., John Herrman, Joyce, Mina Loy, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Dorothy Richardson, May Sin- clair, Edith Sitwell, Gertrude Stein & William Carlos Williams. Includes Joyce‟s Work In Progress from Finnegans Wake; Hemingway‟s Soldiers Home, which first appeared in the American edition of In Our Time; Hanneman B3; & William Carlos Williams‟ essay on Marianne Moore; Wallace B8. A very fine bright copy, with a tiny nick at head of spine, and a touch of soiling at the base of the spine, otherwise as fine a copy as we have seen. $3500.00 3. [ART – BERMAN] BERMAN, Wallace. Radio/Aether Series 1966/1974. A portfolio of 13 two-color offset lithographs, each photographed from an original Verifax collage, and printed on star-white cover mounted on Gem- ini rag-board, in original screen-printed fabric-covered box. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. First edition. Lim- ited to 50 copies, with 10 artist‟s proofs, signed by Berman on the title-page. “Berman‟s most important and compel- ling works, and the ones that secure his reputation as an artist of lasting significance, are the so-called Verifax col- lages. The Verifax was an early form of copier machine, developed by Kodak from research begun in the 1940s. Berman is to date the only artist to have used a copier machine to make substantial and unequivocally successful works of art. The Verifax was an ideal medium for his developed aesthetic. The Verifax collages comprise a body of work extraordinary for its dense cohesion and its resonant simplicity. In Berman‟s oeuvre, the tradition of the artist-as-copyist finds its most sophisticated pronouncement in the Verifax collages, works of art made with a copier machine.” – Christopher Knight, in Support The Revolution: Wallace Berman (Amsterdam: Institute of Contempo- rary Art, 1992), pp. 42-47. A very fine copy. $12,500.00 4. [ART] BUTLER, Eugenia, et al. The Book of Lies Project. Volumes I, II & III. Quartos, three original portfo- lios of 71 works of art, (created out of incised & collaged lead, oil paint on vellum, original pencil drawings, a pho- tograph on platinum paper, polaroid photographs, cyanotypes, ashes of love letters, hand-embroidery, and holograph and mechanically reproduced images and texts), with interleaved translucent sheets noting the artist, loose as issued, inserted in a paper chemise and cardboard folder (or in an individual folder and laid into a clamshell box), accompa- nied by a spiral bound commentary volume in original printed wrappers. Fullerton, CA and Los Angeles: Fullerton College Art Gallery / The Artists‟ (Floating, Invisible) Museum of Actual Art / Public Access Press of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, (1996-2004). First editions of these “work[s] of art made of other works of art using the lie to explore our relationship with truth”. One of 80 numbered copies (the entire edition) produced, num- bered and signed in the artist‟s or poet‟s studio. A complete list of contributors is available upon request. Bookplate in two portfolios (small adhesive shelf label on each), the set is in fine condition. Rare. $12,500.00 5. [ART – CELMINS] MILOSZ, Czeslaw. The View. Tall 4to, illustrated with 4 original mezzotints by Vija Celmins, original black leather & paper covered boards, matching slipcase. N. Y.: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, (1985). First edition. Limited to 120 copies signed by Milosz and Celmins. The Latvian- born, American artist Vija Celmins, best known for her images of the night sky, has been honored with exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney, and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1997. A very fine copy of the most desirable of the publications of the Whitney Library Fellows. $15,000.00 6. [ART – CLEMENTE] MATHEWS, Harry & Francesco CLEMENTE. Singular Pleasures. 8vo, illustrated by Francesco Clemente, original black cloth, printed paper spine label. N. Y.: Grenfell Press, 1988. First edition. One of 324 numbered copies, signed by Mathews and Clemente, out of a total edition of 350 copies. As new. $450.00 7. [ART – HAMMONS] HAMMONS, David. Global Fax Festival. Arkestado por David Hammons. 4to, clear plastic binder containing loose sheets, a compact disk, and a full color brochure. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, 2000). First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Although not called for, this copy is signed by the artist on the back of the pamphlet. The Global Fax Festival was an event cre- ated at the Crystal Palace in Madrid from June 1 – November 6, 2000, during which fax machines were suspended from the ceiling of the gallery and the faxes that were sent to the machines by artists from all over the world rained down on the room. The present binder includes a substantial selection of the faxes received during the festival. David Hammons, an African-American artist well known for his African American Flag painting which is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, won a MacArthur Fellowship Award in 1991 and was recently the subject of a major exhibition at the L & M Arts gallery in New York City. A very fine copy. $5000.00 8. [ART] MORROW, Bradford. A Bestiary. Folio, illustrated with 36 original prints by 18 different artists, full multi-colored morocco by Claudia Cohen, in publisher‟s morocco & linen slipcase. N. Y.: Grenfell Press, 1990. First edition. Limited to 100 copies (the entire edition) of which only 50 were for sale. Each copy is signed by the author and each of the artists, who include Gregory Amenoff, Joe Andoe, James Brown, Vija Celmins, Louisa Chase, Eric Fischl, Jan Hashey, Michael Hurson, Mel Kendrick, James Nares, Ellen Phelan, Joel Shapiro, Kiki Smith, David Storey, Michelle Stuart, Richard Tuttle, Trevor Winkfield, and Robin Winters. The prints are woodcut, linoleum cut and pochoir. Very fine copy, at publication price. $7500.00 9. [ART – POSTER ART] CASTRUCCI, Andrew & Nadia COEN, editors. Your House is Mine [Poster Artists Combating Homelessness, Documenting a Social Movement]. Elephant folio, 32 original color and black & white silkscreened posters, original wooden boards lettered in paint, rubber hinges, bolted spine, boards & spine covered in lead, with original rubber wrapper. New York: Bulletspace, etc., 1991. First edition. Limited to 150 copies, the numbered limitation is in white ink on the black rubber wrapper. Each poster is signed by the artist. Printed at Bullet Space, an anarchist, squatter community since 1982, The Lower East Side Workshop, Black Cat Printshop, Cooper Union, and the Brandywine Workshop, and funded by Art Matters, Artist Space, Northstar Fund, and the Andy War- hol Foundation, the 32 silkscreened posters printed on Mohawk vellum paper are each signed by the artist. The art- ists include: Paul Castrucci, John Fekner, Stash Two, Tom McGliynn & Emily Carter, Day Gleeson & Dennis Tomas, Nadia Coen, Anton Von Dalen, Juan Sanchez, Martin Wong, Miguel Pinero & Andrew Castrucci, Betzaida Concepcion, Seth Tobocman, Sabrina Jones, Red Rodriguez, Marguerite Van Cooke & James Romberger, Neighborhood News, David Wojnarowicz, Lee Quinones & Eduardo Galleano, Lady Pink, Sebastian Schroeder, Missing Foundation, Salter Sipser, Bruce Witsiepe, Will Sales, Vincent Galgliostro and Avram Finkelstein, and Eric Drooker. “This project is a collection of images and texts concerning the broad and essential issue of housing on the Lower East Side [of Manhattan]”. Many of the artists have become well known in recent years, with their works represented in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, the Brooklyn Museum, etc. Several of the artists have emerged as major figures in the Graffiti Art Movement. A very fine copy of this landmark collection. $15,000.00 10. [ART – RIVERS] KALLMAN, Chester. Storm at Castelfranco. Small 8vo, original cloth-backed boards, glassine dust jacket. N. Y.: Grove Press, (1956). First edition. One of only 15 copies signed by Kallman and contain- ing an exceptionally fine original drawing signed by Larry Rivers tipped-in as a frontispiece. Offsetting to title-page from the original drawing, otherwise a very good copy. $7500.00 11. [ARTISTS BOOKS] ROBINSON, Aminah. Journey: Collection of Drawings, Field People, Vol. 1. (No place): Brenda Lynn Robinson, 1979. Unique Artist‟s Book. 4to, 121 loose original pen, watercolor, pastel and pen- cil illustrations in two hand-sewn leather pouches with bead decorations, both in hand-made leather portfolio with hand-tooled lettering.